The youngest son of the emperor dislikes the things he has had to do. Not only can he not follow his dreams but thing are about to get worse. The guards the nobles have forced onto his family turn and most of his family is killed.
Growing up on a pirate station was not easy. With the changes from pirating the station was dying. While doing an examination of a ship a new idea on how to take a ship came. First he needed men with no record and then they needed to leave and go hunting.
A teenage Mexican girl's mother pays to have her daughter smuggled to America only to have her taken advantage of by an immigration officer. An American wife and daughter are kidnapped in Mexico by a drug lord. The young teenage girl is forced to spend her nights in the drug lord's bed while her mother is sent to work in a house of ill repute.
A story in the Anthem Universe
This is the story of Henry and Cindy, two young people who came together as friends and in time became more than that. They grew together as a couple and became stronger individuals, they talked of their future together and what they wanted to get out of life. But fate interviened and turned their lives upside down, causing their plans to be cast aside and putting their future in doubt.